The impossible Indian
Subtitle: Gandhi and the temptation of violence
By: Faisal Devji
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780674066724
Subjects: History; Statesmen; Philosophy; Influence; Biography; Political and social views
Description: This book offers a rare, fresh view of Gandhi as a hard hitting political thinker willing to countenance the greatest violence in pursuit of a global vision that went far beyond a nationalist agenda. Focusing on his unsentimental engagement with the hard facts of imperial domination, Fascism, and civil war, Devji recasts Gandhi as a man at the center of modern history. Rejecting Western notions of the rights of man, rights which can only be bestowed by a state.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bastard history; title: A nation misplaced; title: In praise of prejudice; title: Brothers in arms; title: Hitler's conversion; title: Leaving India to anarchy.